Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed yesterday asked superintendents of Police (SPs) in districts to act as changemakers to serve people and become role models for others.

Bangladesh moved up two notches in the Human Development Index -- to 133 -- compared to last year.

Thirteen Awami League leaders and activists of Kuakata municipal unit and Latachapali union unit have been expelled for violating party discipline.

Some are blaming it on ‘hostile weather’, some on ‘dense fog’ and others on ‘small brown insects’. But whatever the reason is, Boro seedlings are turning yellowish and dying alarmingly in haor areas of Moulvibazar and Sunamganj districts.

About 100 metre portion of an important road collapsed about a week ago following illegal sand extraction from a nearby canal in Chitalmari upazila.

A mobile court today fined the owner of a mental hospital for operating it without any licence in Sadar upazila of Cumilla.

Three passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were killed and two others critically injured in a road accident on Mymensingh-Netrakona road in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh.

The education ministry today approved British Council Bangladesh to hold GCSE and A-Level exams in January 2021 on certain conditions amid the ongoing pandemic.

A modern surface water treatment plant is being constructed near Mongla Port at a cost of nearly Tk 25 crore to meet the demand for freshwater.

Nineteen Bangladeshis including 17 women returned through the Benapole border in Jashore today after serving two years in jail in India.

A Dhaka court today placed 11 people on one-day remands each in connection with a case filed for vandalism during yesterday’s written test of the Bangladesh Bar Council enrollment exam.

Bangladesh Air Force personnel rescued four students after they lost way while trekking a remote hilly area in Cox’s Bazar and sought help through 999 National Emergency Helpline.

A Dhaka court today sentenced Col (retd) Shahid Uddin Chowdhury to nine years in jail in a tax evasion case.

Two motorcyclists were killed and one other person was injured as a bus hit their motorcycle on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Sylhet’s Bishwanath upazila this afternoon.

Killing of Bangladeshis by Indian Border Security Force (BSF), smuggling of drugs and illegal arms into the country from India, illegal trespassing by Indian nationals including BSF members are among key issues to be discussed in the upcoming director general level conference between border forces of the two countries.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says process is on to purchase ultra-modern and high-performance fighter planes for Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) as part of the government’s move to implement the “Forces Goal-2030”.

A case has been filed against Nurul Haque Nur, former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu), with a Brahmanbaria court for making “derogatory remarks” on the government and several government institutions during a Facebook live session.

Election Commissioner Brigadier General (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury has said the allegations of corruption and other misconducts brought against the Election Commission by 42 distinguished citizens are “baseless.”

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained two hundi traders with USD 5,00,000 from Sharsha upazila in Jashore today.

When Ayub Ali, 55, a COVID patient, thought of returning to work after getting discharged from hospital, he realized that he could not walk even small distances without his heart rate increasing. He had to be readmitted to hospital. Ayub has a family history of heart disease, but did not have a pre-existing condition. He had borderline diabetes and hypertension.